MAPS OF FLORENCE

LET US GO FORWARD AND BACKWARD THROUGH TIME WITH MAPS AND IMAGES OF FLORENCE

DANTE'S MEDIEVAL FLORENCE:

1 Santa Maria Novella, Via Cerretani, 2 St Zenobius’ Cross, 3 Baptistery, 4 Santa Reparata/Duomo, 5 Giotto Campanile, 6 Compagnia dei Laudesi, Orsanmichele, tombs, 7 Bigallo/Misericordia, 8 Santa Maria Nuova Hospital, 9 Donati and Albizzi Towers, Piazza San Piero Maggiore, 11. Visdomini Tower, via delle Oche, 12 Adimari Palace, 13. Alighieri, via Speziali, 14. Donato Tower, via del Corso, 15. Piazzetti de Donati, 16, Adimari Palace, 17. Casa dei Portinari, 18. Ravignani Palace, 19. Cerchi Palace, 20. Bargello, 21. Badia, 22. Via Dante Alighieri, 23. Torre della Castagna, 24. Chiesa di San Martino, 25. Casa di Dante, 26. Galigai Palace, 27. Della Bella Palace, 28. Abate Palace, 29. Cavalcanti Palace, via Calzaiuoli, 30. Orsanmichele, 31. Lamberti Palace, via Lamberti, 32. Palazzo Davanzati, 33. Gianfigliazzi Palace, 34. Borgo Santi Apostoli, Buondelmonte Palace, 35. Torre dei Baldovinetti, 36, Amidei Tower, 37. Ponte Vecchio, 38. Ponte Vecchio, 39. Piazza Santa Felicita, 40. San Piero Schieraggi, 41. Borgo dei Greci, 42. Santa Croce, 43. Biblioteca Nazionale, 44. Zecca, 45. San Miniato
  

GEORGE ELIOT'S RENAISSANCE FLORENCE, ROMOLA
 

Map: 1 Dante House and Loggia dei Cerchi; 2 Mercato Vecchio and Corso dei Adimari to 3 Duomo and its Piazza San Giovanni; 4 Ponte Vecchio; 5 Oltrarno, Via dei Bardi; 6 Borgo Pinti and its Porta a' Pinti; 7 Palazzo del Popolo, della Signoria and its Piazza; 8 Badia fiorentina and Corso degli Albizzi  9 Piazza Ognissanti; 10 San Marco; 11 Santissima Annunziata; 12 Rucellai Gardens; 13 Via Valfonda; 14 Ponte Rubaconte and Piazza de' Mozzi; 15 Santa Croce and its Piazza; 16 Borgo and Porta La Croce; 17 Porta San Gallo ->Trespiano; 18 Impruneta->San Gaggio->Florence; 19 San Stefano; 20 Oltrarno, San Miniato; 21 Bargello; 22 Viareggio; 23 Oltrarno, Porta San Frediano; 24 Ponte alla Carraia; 25 Ponte Santa Trinità. You can also explore these places using Google Earth.

towards Vallombrosa. You can also explore these places using Google Earth.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning twice describes the silver arrow of the Arno River shooting through the city of Florence. In Casa Guidi Windows I.52-59

    I can but muse in hope upon this shore
      Of golden Arno as it shoots away
    Straight through the heart of Florence, 'neath the four
      Bent bridges, seeming to strain off like bows,
    And tremble, while the arrowy undertide
      Shoots on and cleaves the marble as it goes,
    And strikes up palace-walls on either side,
      And froths the cornice out in glittering rows,
    With doors and windows quaintly multiplied,
       And terrace-sweeps, and gazers upon all,
    By whom if flower or kerchief were thrown out
      From any lattice there, the same would fall
    Into the river underneath no doubt,
      It runs so close and fast, 'twixt wall and wall.
    How beautiful.

And in Aurora Leigh VII.534-537:

                                            Beautiful
   The city lay along the ample vale,
    Cathedral, tower and palace, piazza and street,
    The river trailing like a silver cord
    Through all, and curling loosely, both before
    And after, over the whole stretch of land
    Sown whitely up and down its opposite slopes
    With farms and villas.

TOURIST MAP OF FLORENCE WITH THE 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY

1* Duomo/Cathedral +; 2* Campanile di Giotto/ Giotto's Bell Tower; 3* Battistero/ Baptistry +; 4 Casa di Dante/ Dante's House; 5 Colonna dell'Abbondanza/ Column of Plenty in Piazza della Repubblica; 6 Badia/ Abbey Church +; 7* Bargello; 8* Palazzo Vecchio/ People's Palace; 9 Loggia dei Lanzi o dell'Orcagna; 10* Galleria degli Uffizi/ Uffizi Gallery; 11* Ponte Vecchio/ Old Bridge; 12* Orsanmichele +; 13 Poste e Telegrafi/ Post Office; 14 Palazzo Strozzi/ Strozzi Palace; 16 Palazzo Ferroni Spini; 17* Chiesa di Santa Maria Novella +; 18 Stazione Centrale/ Santa Maria Novella Station; 20* Chiesa di San Lorenzo e Capella Medicea/ Basilica of San Lorenzo +, Medici Tombs/ Laurentian Library (this last is in the cloister and upstairs, entered on the left from the church); 21*Palazzo Medici Riccardi with Benozzo Gozzoli Chapel; 22* Cenacolo di S. Apollonia (a free museum with magnificent fresco of Last Supper) +; 23* Accademia di Belle Arti; 24* Chiesa e Museo di San Marco/ Church and Museum of San Marco +; 25* Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata and Ospedale degli Innocenti +; 26* Chiesa di Santa Croce +; 27 Biblioteca Nazionale; 28 Giardino di Boboli; 29 Palazzo Pitti; 30 Chiesa di Santo Spirito +; 31 Chiesa del Carmine +; 32* Museo di Storia delle Scienza; 34 Teatro Communale; 35 Fortezza da Basso; 37 Piazzale Michelangelo; 38 Forte di Belvedere; 39 Sinagoga; 41* Chiesa di Ognissanti +

                                                                                               English Cemetery
                                                                                               Piazzale Donatello

Before the Risorgimento, Florence's walls and city gates, built first by Arnolfo di Cambio, then by Michelangelo, had enclosed her.

                                                                                 Protestant Cemetery
                                                                                 Before 1877

And now, Francesco Rosselli's painting of Renaissance Florence as we go back through time:

RENAISSANCE FLORENCE

And here, in the 1342 Bigallo painting of the Madonna of Misericordia, with all Florence under her cloak, the Baptistry and the Badia both faced by Arnolfo di Cambio in black and white marble, with Orsanmichele and Arnolfo di Cambio's Palazzo Vecchio, then the 'Palazzo del Popolo', until the Medici became Princes of Florence's former proud Republic.

For more images of the Bigallo Madonna delle Misericordia see http://www.florin.ms/bigallo.html

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